Chapter 57 Fulfilling the Promise
At this moment, someone may have guessed what the "promise" that Zhou Ming intends to fulfill is.
It's not the so-called marriage of Elsa as the queen... He has never said such a thing.
But the story of "hiding a beautiful woman in the golden house" that has spread throughout the imperial capital and is well-known... This is the essence of Zhou Ming's direct promise.
He didn't want to be honest, and he was said to be without trust behind his back.
He wants to fulfill his promise and prove that he keeps his word!
So...what is he going to do?
Golden House.
He planned to build a golden house in the palace, putting a large amount of precious jewelry inside, and then invite Alsa to go in and play hide-and-seek.
In this way, the story of "a beautiful woman hidden in a golden house" has changed from a market rumor to a real story.
What?
What is this doing?
Isn't this a bit too much?
Some female compatriots, seeing such actions, may give two words to the scumbag.
Not bad, a selfish and shameless scumbag.
Indeed, Zhou Ming also admitted that his approach was indeed a bit awkward.
But don’t think that he has not paid anything to take off his hat of "no faith" and not to be a bad scumbag to the end?
Don’t think that realizing the so-called “golden house hides beautiful women” is just so easy to say.
Even though Zhou Ming was the emperor of a huge empire, even if he was rich all over the world, it took him more than three months to achieve the achievement of "Hidden Beauty in the Golden House".
What did he spend three months doing?
Collect gold, silver and treasures.
Try every means to collect a large amount of gold, silver and treasures.
First, let’s talk about the golden house. How much gold is needed to build a golden house?
Zhou Ming calculated roughly in his mind:
One, in order to highlight the atmosphere of the royal family, the area of the golden house must not be small. 60 square meters and 80 square meters are definitely small-scale. More than 100 square meters are the hard standard.
In addition, the number of floors of a golden house cannot be lower than three floors. A golden house with one or two floors will definitely be laughed at and there will be no one hidden inside.
Some people even set up a basement full of gold... Zhou Ming felt that in order to highlight the "Tibetan" theme, one should be added in the basement.
There are three floors above the ground and one floor below, and there are four floors in total.
Since the walls, floors, ceilings, and even roofs and wall columns are all made of gold bricks, Zhou Ming predicts that the consumption of gold bricks will be about 100,000 yuan.
To make a gold brick, it would cost about 500 gold tower shields... Just for gold, Zhou Ming had to take out at least 50 million gold tower shields.
50 million jinta shields, which is equivalent to the fiscal revenue of the Orunian Empire in one year.
Even Zhou Ming could not produce so many golden tower shields for a while, so he had to try his best to piece them together. It took two and a half months to make up the huge amount of gold.
The problem of gold has been solved. What should I do if I need to put jewelry in the golden house? How to get it?
Regarding this, Zhou Ming also calculated how many jewelry he would prepare?
After calculation, Zhou Ming believed that the plane area inside the golden house was about 350 square meters, and a 50 square meters corridor area was left, and he should pile up a large amount of treasures on the 300 square meters plane.
And you can't just pile one layer, at least three layers of stacked and three layers of boxes are stacked to avoid looking petty.
Then calculate the height of a box of 0.5 meters, multiply by 3, and then multiply by 300, which is a total of 450 cubic meters of jewelry, and he has to provide it.
And what is jewelry?
Jewelry is priceless, so valuable gold and silver jewelry cannot be filled in and pretended to be jewelry.
It must be pearls, agate, jade, gems, fragrant wood, coral, crystal, jade and other rare and strange things.
And you have to take out 450 cubic meters at one time instead of 450 pieces.
But the problem is that Zhou Ming searched the entire palace and ordered people to search everywhere. He found all the things that could be defined as "jewelry", which were only more than 1,000 pieces. They were piled together, not to mention that they formed 450 cubic meters, but even 4 cubic meters.
Use money to buy in large quantities among the people?
Shake his head.
The so-called priceless jewelry refers to jewelry items. The seller can offer a price at will. It may be a sky-high price or a bargain price. However, as long as it looks good and is more rare, the purchase price is quite high.
What's more, after the construction of the golden house is completed, Zhou Ming will no longer have any extra money in his hands to buy so-called jewelry.
A full 450 cubic meters of jewelry is almost an incomplete task.
Even Zhou Ming wants to realize the story of "a beautiful woman in a golden house".
However, Zhou Ming finally got 450 cubic meters of jewelry and achieved the achievement of "building a golden house".
The reason was that a caravan of ten large floating boats that set off in May this year went to the adjacent Domiwaga continent (also a floating island, similar in size to the Orunian Empire) to return from business, bringing a large amount of jewelry that Zhou Ming urgently needed.
This is also a coincidence. Domiwaga continent produces various types of jewelry, but gold and silver are in short supply. The general currency of this continent is actually a white and bright, round and smooth pearl with extremely large quantities and low purchasing power. However, gold and silver and other currencies have few mineral deposits and little market circulation, which are of great value.
So after arriving on the Domiwaga Continent, Orunia Empire caravan, he brought a lot of gold and silver, he spread a lot of gold and silver, and he wanted to buy as much jewelry as he wanted.
Of course, the jewelry that Zhou Ming wants cannot be just a pearl. Fortunately, due to the continuous depreciation of the pearl currency, gem coins, fragrant wood coins, crystal coins, diamond coins and other things appeared on the Domiwaga continent. The value is much higher than that of pearls, but they are not as valuable as gold and silver.
However, the caravan did not carry much gold and silver. Zhou Ming asked for 450 cubic meters of jewelry, which could not be all pearls, and it required a variety of them, which was a bit difficult.
Fortunately, the ten large floating boats of this caravan also carried a large amount of best-selling goods. After these goods were sold out, they recovered a large amount of funds, which was enough to pay for the purchase of jewelry.
So in October, the caravan returned to the empire and landed in the central floating port, Zhou Ming's jewelry problem was solved!
The golden house used by the beauty is successfully created!
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October 20.
That morning, Zhou Ming sent someone to invite the old king, his great-granddaughter Elsa, and a group of ministers and nobles to the palace.
On a clearing in the harem, they were brought to a large object covered with canvas.
Zhou Ming asked the ministers to guess first, what exactly is the object in front of him?
"I think it's a tree, a big tree."
"It's not a tree, the tree doesn't have such square edges. I think it should be a rockery."
"Your Majesty once described a machine called a steam engine to me. I think it is probably a steam engine!" said an official who was particularly interested in technological machinery.
"Toys must be fun toys! The toys invented by His Majesty."
"Ersa, what do you think, what might this be?"
Zhou Ming asked Elsa next to him with his hands in his arms.
Elsa wore a lady dress with exquisite makeup and obviously dressed up carefully. In addition, she already had a 95-point temperament and appearance, she became the focus of everyone. In private, the ministers praised her beauty and thought that His Majesty had a good vision.
However, Elsa, who was standing next to Zhou Ming, was obviously a little restrained. When she heard Zhou Ming’s question, she was even more frightened. She thought for a while, turned her head back and forth, looked for a while before she spoke: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, I think this should be a house."
Elsa didn't dare to look at Zhou Ming, she felt a deer bumping into her heart.
"Yes, Elsa, you are very smart. This thing in front of you is the gift I want to give you."
Zhou Ming nodded and said to the left and right: "Guard, open the canvas and let everyone see its true appearance!"
"Yes, your Majesty!"
Several guards walked over, untied the rope, and pulled it hard in several directions.
"Wow~"
A sound of canvas pulling sounded.
The top structure of the building was exposed.
After some strong sunshine!
brush!
Everyone couldn't help but close their eyes.
Glorious.
The golden light made people unable to open their eyes.
After a while.
When everyone got used to the dazzling golden light and the sound of "wow" around him was filled with sounds, Zhou Ming hugged his hands and said:
Chapter completed!